Name: JRE MMA Show #106 with Leon Edwards
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #106 with Leon Edwards' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #106 with Leon Edwards' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-18. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #106 with Leon Edwards

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night all day Leon what's up I'm good how are you dude uh first of all fun
hanging with you
last night it was a good time then the first time seeing you um live I was
saying to my my
manager you're so effortless just like talking right but it's still funny it's
like if you can
approach fighting like that like make it um effortless then that you did a good
job well I think
some guys can at certain stages right like there's moments in fights where don't
you feel
like you're in a zone sometimes and it just everything's flowing saturday night
saturday night
yeah I felt good all backstage because um leading up to the fight everyone's
like ring rust ring rust so
I was kind of waiting for some feeling to say where's ring rust right but I
felt great backstage and a
preferred fighting with with no crowd did you really yeah you get you get to do
to the apex
and it's like you get there you wrap your hands you warm up you fight there's
no hanging around for
five hours backstage and just it's like a gym right you get there you're warmed
and just go compete so
I I preferred it for sure do you prefer it because of the there's no noise no
distractions
no nothing and you can hear your coaches clearly oh yeah instructions clearly
and I'm I'm a very good
listener to my coaches so I wouldn't say I prefer it but it was I it was good I
enjoyed it you have
been in a very interesting position over the last few years where you are one
of the top UFC welter
welterweights but just because of bad fortune just things just haven't totally
lined up correctly
yeah fights have fallen apart injuries and sicknesses and a bunch of shit went
down and
you're until Saturday night you you had been kind of ignored by a lot of fans
like a lot of people
don't understand what level you're at they don't understand I think they saw it
for the brief moment
that happened that you fought Saturday night but then unfortunately there's the
injury you know
Bilal has the accidental eye poke and it's another you know another unfortunate
situation but at least
during that first round yeah the first round they got to see your skill level
yeah for sure and I was
just getting warmed up as well I got over the last year and a half I've learned
so much that I want to
show and to have that that incident happen like it's one in a million right you
when you're preparing
in camp you're like I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that and then when that
happened I was like I
thought I was like okay take five minutes let it play out a little bit then
hopefully we can fight
again but he's just he's always that bad because I was so fucked yeah and there
was it it was a not
quite it wasn't a poke no I want to poke it was like a knuckle see the picture
it's like you're kicking
right so yeah when you're kicking you don't hold you don't hold your fist and
kick like this right you kind of use it
to momentum to swing your arm back and as I was doing it it kind of just like
grazed his eyes well not
grazed it kind of went deep but it grazed his eyes a bit and then but was it
like the front knuckles you
look like it from the picture yeah I couldn't tell I didn't feel it I thought
it was the the the kick that
got him in his body and then he fell down at the start you know they wouldn't
start grabbing his eyes I
was like oh shit I got I got I caught him in his eye you know right I thought
it was just literally
the kick that caught him because I did this and then I think Dana put a photo
on his Instagram Jamie
I think it was a knuckle you weren't you weren't you weren't this for sure it's
uh so unfortunate man
but I mean for you what I was getting at was that it has to be so frustrating
here you are
another ad blocker here here you are you have this long layoff yeah and fights
keep getting
canceled and then you finally get a fight you're performing really well and
then this happens
is that it's like the bad luck right the last year the last year or so just one
after and after
the Woodley fight I meant to fight Woodley in um in London in March and um had
that canceled the
week before on the Sunday before the fight and then from there just bad luck
bad luck bad luck trickling down so
so yeah it's like yeah it's like the bottom of your finger yeah so it's not
like it's straightforward
it's like it's just getting in there that's terrible and it wasn't the eyeball
right it's like the
under the eyelid yeah you know car so I saw below um Sunday in the casino in
Vegas and his eyes was
fine just the it's the lid that um that was bruised but yeah he said the the
vision started returning
the next day and now he said there's no permanent damage so he's gonna be okay
he had his lid stitched
up yeah I wish him well so so good yeah he's a great guy and uh uh it was a
great opponent for
you too because he's so relentless he's you know he's constantly moving forward
he's a tough guy he's
durable yeah he's very horrible when I caught him with a head kick in the first
round and I kind of
rushed my work a little bit I kind of went wild and started swinging swinging
for him but I should have
picked my shots a little bit better but he's tough he's durable but he doesn't
beat me in any given
day you know I I believe if I fight 10 times I'll beat him 10 times and that's
just it is he was a
late stepping for hands that fell out and I think he should go back work his
way back up and then
hopefully we can meet somewhere down the line but for now I'm looking towards
the title shot I'm looking
towards being a world champion do you think that uh the title shot is warranted
just because your
previous work and just because of the great first round that you had but I mean
do you feel like
there's any unfinished business because of the way that fight ended with below
yeah with um
I don't believe so I think from the first round I'm normally I'm a slow starter
right so if that's my
if that's my first round you're not making it to the to the fifth you know so
um I think everyone saw
where the fight was going and he wouldn't have made it to number five so we
would I understand your
confidence I really do and this is not to demean that at all but you gotta you
gotta give the guy
an opportunity right like you know what I'm saying like if here's my point if
the fight went the first
round if the eye poke didn't happen the referee just stopped the fighter but
like what are you doing
well you know where this fight's going well you don't know where a fight's
going because fights
are crazy like weird happens people slip guy gets him in a choke like weird
stuff happens you know people get
injured you know someone throws a calf kick all of a sudden your leg goes numb
you get hit with a punch
weird happens you fights are crazy you know that it's crazy but um you know
what I'm saying though
I know I know what you're saying but I would have I would have won that fight
clearly
Joe normally normally I'm a slow starter in the first round right I know like
so
I would have I felt great saturday night and even I'm uh if I felt good below
and not beating me
completely appreciate your confidence but as a fan of you yeah and as a fan of
balal yeah um I don't
think it would be a bad thing to run back not straight away I'm looking to that's
my nine my nine
fight right in a row um eight I won an eight five win streak for below um I
would have won the fight
so there'll be nine fight um without without loss from getting um beat by
husband five six years ago
so I feel I've done enough work now to prove that uh I belong at least in the
more contender fight or
title fight uh you know so I can totally appreciate your position but I can
also appreciate balal I know
where it's coming from obviously if I was him I'd probably do the same thing
right he's ranked number
about 13 14 and yeah this big opportunity is first main event um number three
guy in the world so
I know where he's approaching it from but I am looking looking for my own
career right
I want to look towards the title shot I understand hopefully we'll get it yeah
you've had all these
weird situations where things fell apart it's uh it's very unfortunate and uh
did you feel like
the hamzat fight was strange too because like here's this guy who's only had a
few fights in the ufc
he's got a lot of hype behind him because he's had like the mirror shark fight
was a great result
he looked fantastic but then all of a sudden he's fighting you yeah like it was
weird right because
the week boom two weeks before that Dana white came out and he's like uh nah I'm
never gonna fight
Leon or no one in top five but then next week he's like Leon you want to fight
him I was like you just
said oh you I'm too high ranked for him but um where do you think that came
from I don't know I don't
know I think everyone was turning him down you know and um no one everyone's
turning me down as
well so just okay you want to fight him I was okay look what what about Kobe is
that Kobe said no what
about Marcelo Marcelo said no what about wonder boy wonder boy is injured that's
okay you got the most
hype in the division now um that I could like piggyback off to get to a world
title shot right and this
was a kid then what build him up is this this kid that can't be beaten is tough
and so I was like
okay I'll go out there I'll I'll fight him and when I beat him I'll fight for
the world title and that
that was my plan right to use um this hype they're building around him to get
me to a world title shot
I'm always looking towards the title shot right anyway I can get there easier
um I'll then use
hands out to you to get there isn't it weird how hype comes along sometimes
like some guys just
they just get washed up and hype and they're just flying down the river like
what's going on
I've been in promotion for so long I like eight second knockout and everything
I did exactly what
he did but like you said right just random just comes from knowing well it's
like sometimes it's justified
like remember when uh Joaquin Buckley uh when he landed on um how do you say
his dumb how did
how the he's got a the the gentleman he kicked with that wild oh yeah yeah how
do you say his last name
it's a crazy kick holding on one leg and he does a jump spinning back kick to
the face
i was practicing it in the gyms next day it's a wild technique
because i'm gonna right that's how you say it right um that's that's hype that's
deserved but you know
every now and then i mean that makes sense like then people were paying
attention to him
you know but every now and then like a guy will get so much hype and then it
becomes like a thing of
its own like people start paying attention to it more than anything and it's it's
weird like personality
and hype it's so important for selling fights yeah 100 so important it's been
on that since back a day
right yeah boxing's like we can put the bombs in the seat yep that's everything
it's everything right
so it's not really about skill set a bit about skill set but it's mostly about
you can put the
most bombs in the seat and it's about everything right like remember when
prince nasim hamed would
come out on a throne and then carry him out dancing yeah there's certain things
that have to sell are
you do you ever think about that like man maybe i should talk more or maybe i
should be
more flamboyant like how do i get more hype or do i just keep winning yeah i
just keep winning keep
doing your thing right because yeah if i come out tomorrow now i start dressing
like everyone's wearing
like robes and now it's all wearing a robe and paint my hair pink and people
like how are you doing you
know so um desperate yeah exactly the weird stuff it would be yourself um keep
winning that's important
and they can't deny winners right if you work hard and you win they can't deny
yourself i'll win it my
way and i'll feel more i'll enjoy it better when i win it my way so what has it
been like going through
this this lull wh